Question 1

The recommended daily diet for an adult in the United States contains approximately 200-2600 calories.In many areas of Europe in the early nineteenth century,an entire peasant family might have a daily caloric intake of about:

Accepted Answer

A)  3000. 
B)  6000. 
C)  10,000. 
D)  12,000. 
E)  15,000.

Question 2

The emergence of a new social hierarchy in the nineteenth century associated with growing middle-class influence was described by all of the following novelists EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  Honoré de Balzac. 
B)  Victor Hugo. 
C)  Charles Dickens. 
D)  Franz Kafka. 
E)  Theodore Fontane.

Question 3

The first modern railway connected Stockton to Manchester to transport coal from the mines.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

For most of the nineteenth century,all of the following were used by middle-class families to protect or advance their financial standing EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  family-based credit networks. 
B)  social insurance. 
C)  marriage. 
D)  employment of relatives. 
E)  female account-keeping.

Question 5

The development of the steam engine decisively transformed the nineteenth-century world.All of the following numbered among its applications EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  Mining pumps. 
B)  Railroad locomotives. 
C)  Factory looms. 
D)  Spinning mules. 
E)  Automobiles.

Question 6

Great Britain's small size in the early stages of industrialization:

Accepted Answer

A)  encouraged the development of a well-integrated domestic market. 
B)  severely hampered the development of a market economy. 
C)  aided in the establishment of foreign business monopolies in Great Britain. 
D)  caused Great Britain to lag behind continental Europe in developing industry. 
E)  allowed foreign investors to take over most English heavy industry.

Question 7

Great Britain began to lose its lead in the Industrial Revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century due to new industries being developed by other countries,such as:

Accepted Answer

A)  explosives and iron. 
B)  chemical processes and energy. 
C)  transportation and energy. 
D)  iron and communications. 
E)  transportation and communications.

Question 8

The nineteenth-century banking revolution was accompanied by scandal; the greatest of the banks involved was the Péreire brothers' bank,the:

Accepted Answer

A)  Belgian Société Générale. 
B)  Austrian Creditanstalt. 
C)  Banque de Paris. 
D)  Crédit Mobilier. 
E)  Crédit Agricole.

Question 9

The Great Famine of 1845-1849:

Accepted Answer

A)  took place during a period when the Irish population was naturally declining. 
B)  affected only the Irish: it did not occur anywhere else in Europe. 
C)  was responsible for the deaths of at least 1 million Irish. 
D)  led to open class war between Irish peasants and their English landlords. 
E)  virtually wiped out the Irish population, allowing the English to take over the country as a colony.

Question 10

By the late nineteenth century,the core industrial countries of Europe included:

Accepted Answer

A)  Great Britain, France, and Greece. 
B)  France, Russia, and Italy. 
C)  Bulgaria, Russia, and Greece. 
D)  Great Britain, Germany, and Russia. 
E)  Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.

Question 11

The British "navvies" were:

Accepted Answer

A)  feminists who argued for "equal pay for equal work." 
B)  the construction workers who built the railways. 
C)  sailors of Her Majesty's navy serving in India. 
D)  the construction workers who built factories throughout the British Empire. 
E)  natives who worked for British companies in the colonies.

Question 12

Wealth had the central role in forming a middle-class identity.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Illegitimacy rates in preindustrial Europe were in the very low single digits but rose significantly-to 25 and 33 percent in some countries-following industrialization.A primary cause of this was:

Accepted Answer

A)  simply the increase in population: more people, more illegitimacy. 
B)  a complete collapse of the moral code of Europeans. 
C)  the degeneration of social controls present in villages but missing in urban centers. 
D)  a shift in moral thinking which determined that more workers were needed regardless of parentage. 
E)  a falling away from religion such that very few people were marrying anymore.

Question 14

While the housing in the cities did not allow for gardens,families were able to gain access to good,cheap food at city markets,thanks to the increasingly inexpensive transportation systems.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793,the cotton gin:

Accepted Answer

A)  had little effect on the process of cotton textile manufacture. 
B)  produced sixteen threads at once. 
C)  combined the best features of the spinning jenny and the water frame. 
D)  mechanically separated the seeds from the cotton fibers. 
E)  did the work of fifteen men.

Question 16

All of the following innovations belonged to the first phase of the Industrial Revolution EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  Watt's steam engine. 
B)  locomotives. 
C)  telegraphs. 
D)  Compton's mule. 
E)  coke smelting.

Question 17

Direct communication between the United States and Europe was not possible until:

Accepted Answer

A)  1825. 
B)  1848. 
C)  1865. 
D)  1883. 
E)  1900.

Question 18

How accurate is the image of "passionless" Victorian sexuality,and why was such an image cultivated?

Accepted Answer

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Question 19

What determined the division of the working class into subgroups?

Accepted Answer

A)  Location of workplace 
B)  Gender 
C)  Skills and workplace 
D)  Skills, wages, and gender 
E)  Industry worked in

Question 20

Politicians and social reformers understood all of the following as comprising "the social question" EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  wet nursing. 
B)  aristocratic manners. 
C)  sewage. 
D)  tuberculosis. 
E)  prostitution.

Exam 19: The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century Society

The recommended daily diet for an adult in the United States contains approximately 200-2600 calories.In many areas of Europe in the early nineteenth century,an entire peasant family might have a daily caloric intake of about:

The emergence of a new social hierarchy in the nineteenth century associated with growing middle-class influence was described by all of the following novelists EXCEPT:

The first modern railway connected Stockton to Manchester to transport coal from the mines.

For most of the nineteenth century,all of the following were used by middle-class families to protect or advance their financial standing EXCEPT:

The development of the steam engine decisively transformed the nineteenth-century world.All of the following numbered among its applications EXCEPT:

Great Britain's small size in the early stages of industrialization:

Great Britain began to lose its lead in the Industrial Revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century due to new industries being developed by other countries,such as:

The nineteenth-century banking revolution was accompanied by scandal; the greatest of the banks involved was the Péreire brothers' bank,the:

The Great Famine of 1845-1849:

By the late nineteenth century,the core industrial countries of Europe included:

The British "navvies" were:

Wealth had the central role in forming a middle-class identity.

Illegitimacy rates in preindustrial Europe were in the very low single digits but rose significantly-to 25 and 33 percent in some countries-following industrialization.A primary cause of this was:

While the housing in the cities did not allow for gardens,families were able to gain access to good,cheap food at city markets,thanks to the increasingly inexpensive transportation systems.

Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793,the cotton gin:

All of the following innovations belonged to the first phase of the Industrial Revolution EXCEPT:

Direct communication between the United States and Europe was not possible until:

How accurate is the image of "passionless" Victorian sexuality,and why was such an image cultivated?

What determined the division of the working class into subgroups?

Politicians and social reformers understood all of the following as comprising "the social question" EXCEPT: